Oracle Revenue Up, but Charges Drag Down Profit

From PC World: Fueled by growth in new software licenses, Oracle revenue for its fiscal third quarter, ended Feb. 28, increased 17 percent from the same period last year, hitting US$6.4 billion, though earnings declined due in part to restructuring charges incurred by the company's...

Make room, iPad: AT&T to sell Intel-based tablet too

From CNET News.com: AT&T is already expanding its selection of products in the nascent tablet market. In addition to the upcoming Apple iPad, AT&T will market a tablet based on a future version of Intel's Atom processor.

At the CTIA trade show in Las Vegas this week, AT&T announced...

AMD Reschedules Launch Schedule for 6-Core AMD Phenom II X6 CPUs

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices, the world’s second largest maker of central processing units (CPUs), has decided to reschedule the launch of its six-core microprocessors by speeding up the release of the highest-performance Phenom II X6 chip and delaying the availability of...

ATI Radeon Finally Supports Stereoscopic 3D Output

From X-bit Labs: ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, on Wednesday finally released its new Catalyst 10.3 driver that enables third-party providers of stereo 3D solutions to output stereoscopic three-dimensional images using ATI Radeon HD graphics cards. While ATI...

Wikipedia suffers global collapse

From InfoWorld: Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation Web sites went down for hours on Wednesday in a global outage caused by a domino effect of technical problems.

The problems started when Wikimedia servers overheated in the organization's European data center and shut...

Hacker Busts IE8 on Windows 7 in 2 Minutes

From PC World: Two researchers yesterday won $10,000 each at the Pwn2Own hacking contest by bypassing important security measures of Windows 7.

Both Peter Vreugdenhil of the Netherlands and a German researcher who only would give his first name of Nils, found ways to disable DEP...

Sprint, Clearwire CEOs ponder LTE for future

From CNET News.com: Sprint Nextel and Clearwire executives admitted Wednesday that they could follow the rest of the worldwide wireless network and adopt LTE for future network upgrades.

Spring Nextel CEO Dan Hesse and Clearwire CEO Bill Morrow sat down separately and talked to CTIA...

GoDaddy to stop registering domains in China

From CNET News.com: During a congressional hearing later today to discuss Internet freedom and China, GoDaddy executives plan to announce that they will stop registering domain names in China in response to a new government policy that requires extensive information about registrants...

Time Warner Cable Offers Free Wi-Fi for Customers in NYC

From DailyTech: Time Warner Cable has announced that it is offering its Road Runner high-speed internet customers in New York City access to Wi-Fi zones free of charge. The new zones are available for customers who are on the broadband service and offer unlimited usage in many areas...

Who Needs Flash? CBS Prepares HTML5 Player for iPad

From DailyTech: The good news for HTML5 advocates is that Apple's iPad for better or worse may finally push the format into the mainstream, which could eventually displace proprietary formats like Flash and Silverlight. The bad news is that Apple has pushed a version of HTML5 that...

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